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Deleted Windows & program housing partitions by mistake... Undelete?
Here is the situation.
I have one internal hard drive (win 7, program files, etc.) and and external hard drive (storage) hooked up.
The external hard drive I was using as storage used to be in one of my other laptops.
So I was going to use the windows 7 dvd to delete all the partitions that Disk manager doesn't
seem to be able to delete (not sure why but Disk Manager was acting up).
However, the two drives (internal and external) are both exactly the same drives and the
partitions divided up the space exactly the same (100MB, 15.66GB, 450GB).
I made an idiotic mistake of deleting the partitions of my internal hard drive instead of the external one.
As you can guess, the laptop can't boot any more.
Now my laptop internal drive has the 3 partitions:
15.66GB Healthy RAW - deleted this one by mistake (housed Windows 7)
100MB System Recovery Healthy (Active) - didn't delete this one
450GB Healthy RAW - deleted this one by mistake (housed program files)
But I cannot access the 450GB (which housed all my programs) and the 15.66GB (which housed Windows)
Is there a way to simply undelete and revert the process so my laptop can boot and have back its functionality?
None of the partitions have been formatted, and I'm in the process of backing up the two
partitions (450GB and 15.66GB) onto another external hard drive.
Is restoring functionality as easy as backing up files in the RAW 450GB and RAW 15.66GB partitions
then formatting the RAW 450GB and RAW 15.66GB partitions,
and just copying and pasting the backed up files?
I kind of doubt that...
Regardless can some one help please.
Thank you for your time.